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Lets hope these kind of performances from him are the norm for the rest of the season.

Funny how you can score ten runs the day before and squeak by with a one run win the next day..You gotta love baseball, no predictability. Watching this team now you can see the wheels in motion. No predictions here, I’m just making an observation, or wishful thinking aloud.

Things are clicking..I feel it

Tulowitzki begins his rehab assignment with the Modesto Nuts..lol. They’re the the Rockies single A team. That’s got to suck for Tulo. “Hey Tulo, what team do you play for”, Tulo responding “um, I play with the nuts”.

Get better quick dude. Thats embarassing.

Hunter’s baseball team lost yesterday. He was able to play center field and 2nd base. He didn’t get a chance to bat this time. None of the kids on his team even got a hit.

Poor Hunter, he kept saying if he just could have gotten a chance to bat he’d have got a hit. Nine year olds don’t really understand how a rotation works and how coaches have to be fair to everyone. He just knows he doesn’t like to lose and he hates sitting on the bench.

My little man was visibly upset the whole evening.

I love his dedication…were still working on being a good loser.

Rockies play at 1pm today. Wish I could be there.

GOOD NEWS !

I interviewed for another job within my company yesterday and i got it!!

I’m not sure what I expected of the Rockies in Game two vs the Phillies. I know the twenty run old fashioned butt whoopin they bent over for the night before didn’t set well with them or this Rockies fan.

Maybe I expected them to come out fresh and ready to strike back. Putting the game last night behind them.

Maybe I expected Ubaldo Jimenez to take ownership of that mound and control this game. Not have his worst outing of the year.

He’s now 1 and 10 in his starts.

Maybe, I wanted the Rockies the show the Phillies in Philidelphia that the magical run last year wasn’t a fluke, and …..well none of that happened.

Rockies lose two straight to the Phillies with a final score of 7-4.

Blame it on the rain..You know when it rains it freggin pours.

On a positive note…..Garrett Atkins is back in the lineup.

He went 1 for 5, and finished pain free.

Welcome back Garrett!!

Seth Smith went 3 for 5, and continues to show us why he doesn’t work in Colorado Springs anymore.

Keep it up Seth,..carve your niche while you have the opportunity

<—-Remember the pinball machine Slugfest?

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I NEED..A Colorado Rockies, bottom of the 9th two out slugfest.

Every once in a while you have one of those days where the planets align and everything just goes your way.

Today was my day. I’m going to every game this week except for Sunday.

I figured there would be batting practice today since neither team had a late game yesterday.

I arrived early and was the first person in front of the Rockpile gate. I would have been the first through the gate except for a young boy who didn’t have a backpack managed to sneak in before me.

No worries, I’m ok with that.

Anyways, I was also the first to arrive at the left field pavilion and as luck would have it I was correct. Both teams were on the field and Rockies were full into their batting practice.

I brought a baseball with me that I had snagged at batting practice a few games back. I was hoping to get that ball signed because I didn’t have any more of the Rockies emblem balls that I had been using up to that point.

On the field standing directly in front of me were Manny Corpas, Willy Taveras, and Ubaldo Jimenez.

I waited for the perfect opportunity to ask Manny for his autograph because I had seen him sign from that exact spot before. He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders at me like he couldn’t do it.

That’s not true.

The players do sign autographs from that spot, I’ve seen it before.

Your still ok in my books Manny, but you need to spread some cheer. Think back to when you were a kid.

Luckily, I saw Ubaldo coming over to get a ball that had hit the wall and a guy in row one hit him up for an autograph.

He signed it and then I made my move.

Before he turned around I said “Ubaldo will you please sign my ball”, and to my surprise he motioned for me to throw the ball to him.

I threw it right to him and then tossed him my pen. He signed it, and threw back the ball and my pen.

Ubaldo, THANK YOU man!

You really made a fans day

Manny..take some notes here.

So now I’m all hyped up.

I’m standing in the pavilion not even two minutes and I hear a loud CRACK.

I looked up to see a ball heading directly for me. I didn’t even have to move.

I started to get the feeling of people surrounding me.

I stood on my toes, leaned over, reached out and

POOF

The ball landed perfectly in my glove.

That was the second batting practice ball I’ve straight up caught

Ok now I’m a freggin Rockstar.

Suddenly I’m surrounded by a mob kids that think I have the magic spot or something. I decided to try another location but wound up with just that one ball..

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